Hydra is one of the prospects that make many a user’s mouth water as multi-GPU configurations with Nvidia and ATI cards working together has much more to offer to users than just picking favorites. We’ve now come across a demonstration showing Nvidia’s GTX 260+ running along HD 5770 on MSI’s Big Bang Fuzion motherboard.

The folks over at PCPerspective have seen this demo setup at GDC 2010, and they got the chance to take a few shots. What you’ll see is Nvidia’s card feeding more juice to a multi-monitor AMD Eyefinity configuration, and the results are pretty nice. The demo setup used only two displays but it’s possible to use more.

HAWX immediately reported benefits as Radeon HD 5770 scored 74fps whereas combined with Geforce GTX 260+ it churns out 98fps.

The scaling amounts to about 32%, which makes a noticeable difference on a 3840x1200 display configuration. We however must admit that we’re more excited to see this concept getting polished and perfected, as 32% scaling isn’t quite what we’d call commercially viable in these times. Be it as it may, our hat is off to Lucid team that proved the old saying where there’s will – there’s a way. If only ATI and Nvidia thought so.

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